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A Man in Love [Un Homme Amoureux] ** (1987, Peter Coyote, Greta Scacchi, Jamie Lee Curtis, Peter Riegert, Claudia Cardinale) – Classic Movie Review 11,808

Director Diane Kurys’s 1987 French-Italian drama film A Man in Love [Un Homme Amoureux] stars Peter Coyote, Greta Scacchi, Jamie Lee Curtis, Peter Riegert, Claudia Cardinale. It is Kurys’s first English language film and was […]

Dec, 19

Great Day *** (1945, Eric Portman, Flora Robson, Sheila Sim) – Classic Movie Review 8506

Director Lance Comfort’s 1945 Great Day stars Flora Robson, who gives an authoritative turn as Mrs Liz Ellis, the leading light of  the Women’s Institute in the English village of Denley getting ready for the […]

May, 28

The Virgin and the Gypsy *** (1970, Joanna Shimkus, Franco Nero, Honor Blackman) – Classic Movie Review 8505

D H Lawrence’s minor tale of an English clergyman’s prim and proper virginal daughter Yvette (played by Canadian actress Joanna Shimkus) who falls for the sexual charms of a glowering, pale-eyed, seductively virile gypsy (Italian […]

May, 27

Fancy Pants *** (1950, Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Bruce Cabot) – Classic Movie Review 8244

Director George Marshall’s 1950 comedy Fancy Pants is a funny musical re-interpretation of the 1935 Ruggles of Red Gap, with the delicious, ideally paired two stars Bob Hope and Lucille Ball having bags of fun […]

Mar, 14

The Beast in the Cellar *** (1971, Beryl Reid, Flora Robson, Tessa Wyatt, John Hamill, T P McKenna, Dafydd Harvard, Vernon Dobtcheff) – Classic Movie Review 7855

Writer-director James Kelley’s 1971 British horror movie The Beast in the Cellar stars the formidable team of Flora Robson and Beryl Reid as Joyce and Ellie Ballantyne, a couple of dear old spinsters who have […]

Nov, 30

Pygmalion **** (1938, Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller, Wilfrid Lawson) – Classic Movie Review 4945

Pygmalion? It was one of Shaw’s. And he won an Oscar! Directors Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard’s 1938 British version of George Bernard Shaw’s 1913 play Pygmalion about the English speech-study professor who plots to […]

Jan, 26

Daddy Nostalgie [These Foolish Things [Daddy Nostalgia] **** (1990, Dirk Bogarde, Jane Birkin, Odette Laure) – Classic Movie Review 4,873

While retired English businessman (Dirk Bogarde) is recuperating from heart surgery, his adult daughter Caroline (Jane Birkin) comes from Paris to visit him and her mother, in Bertrand Tavernier’s impressive 1990 drama film Daddy Nostalgie.  […]

Jan, 10

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